• Specialty

  Health / Safety / Compliance
  

• SECTOR

  Municipal
  

• TYPE

  Environmental Study
  

• CLIENTELE

  Local Government
  

• TIMESPAN

  2007

• LOCATION

  Middleton, MA

Middletown Waste Transfer Station

SERVICE:

Radiation Monitoring & Waste Source Segregation

DESCRIPTION:

The Middleton Waste Transfer Station on Natsue Way in Middleton, Massachusetts required radiation monitoring and radioactive source segregation to identify whether previously discovered isotopes had decayed below incineration thresholds of concern.

Tech Environmental conducted numerous site visits to the transfer station to perform radiation monitoring to locate and segregate the source material.  This process involved picking through the entire contaminated load with a backhoe and shovel lift to identify the contaminated materials.  Eventually two 40 gallon containers were filled with radioactive contaminated refuse.  Tech conducted a follow-up site visit three months later  and found that all readings on the surface of the waste containers were at “normal background” levels.

 

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Key Points

• A transfer station required radiation monitoring and radioactive source segregation.
• Tech performed radiation monitoring to locate and segregate the radioactive material.